TY - BOOK AU - Carrier,James G AU - Miller,Daniel TI - Virtualism : a new political economy SN - 9781859732427 PY - 1998/// CY - Oxford PB - Berg KW - Economics KW - Abstraction KW - Structural adjustment (Economic policy) KW - Economic policy KW - Economic development KW - Capitalism KW - Economic man N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Contents: Abstraction in western economic practice / James G. Carrier -- The triumph of economics / Ben Fine -- Abstraction, reality and the gender of "economic man" / Julie A. Nelson -- Development and structural adjustment / Philip McMichael -- Cash for quotas : disputes over the legitimacy of an economic model of fishing in Iceland / Agnar Helgason and Gisli Pálsson -- The transnational capitalist class / Leslie Sklair -- A theory of virtualism / Daniel Miller ER -